It is a testament to the strangeness of what happened to me that I was doing something not many people could. But if you could, would you want to be doing it?
On August 13, 1990 I started my first full-time job as the administrative assistant to the director at an insurance brokerage. Two months later my boss decided to give me telemarketing duties. Each day I had to cold call prospects, dialing down a list of phone numbers we got from who knows where. I flubbed and floundered my...
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Recently, I had the opportunity to talk with a student at Pratt Institute, my alma mater. She was "shadowing" me for the day. I recounted... Read more »
The "100 Individuals with Schizophrenia" interview campaign continues. I talk now with Marvin Spieler, director of the Consumer... Read more »
A mother writes that her son, who has been diagnosed with schizophrenia, stops taking his Risperdal when he is feeling better. She then has... Read more »
U.S. researchers say they've spotted a gene variant that may raise the risk of schizophrenia in some people, a finding that may lead to new... Read more »
Large, rare structural changes in DNA called copy number variants may play a role in schizophrenia, according to U.S. researchers, who said their... Read more »
Psychiatrist Ronald Pies talks about the laws surrounding schizophrenia and driving. Pies discusses this issue by sharing the story of Harry, a... Read more »
Treatment in childhood with epilepsy medications may be linked to the development of schizophrenia later in life, some researchers say. Scientists... Read more »
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